forrest-dev mailing list archives

From: "Steven Noels" <stevenn@outerthought.org>
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
> > Ok, I change my -1 on staticity to a -0, but I *want* a clean URI
> > space... this will require Forrest to produce .htaccess files with
> > mod_rewrite rules, but I think this isn't that hard to do. We
> > could also
> > perform browser negotiation using those rewrite rules.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Browser negotiation is dynamic stuff, we should do that when Cocoon is
> running underneath. Given the amount of politics and work coming up, I'd
> say we start without browser negotiation. After all, even a consistent
> look across xml.apache.org will already be quite revolutionary, and none
> of the current project sites is doing much towards browser capabilities.
+1 I do not see any need of doing browser negotiation to get up a nice site.
> 1) convince everybody to let forrest (static) take care of their project
> website, showcasing the new 'portal' *look&feel*, generating static html
> for xml.apache.org
> 2) once this has been taken care of we can make a switch-over using the
> exactly same sitemap but now running dynamically on top of Cocoon
> (nagoya)
> 3) after this transparent switch-over we start adding new (dynamic)
> stuff until nobody wants to see anything else ;-)
+1 Let's do the basic stuff first.
--
Nicola Ken Barozzi barozzi@nicolaken.com
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
---------------------------------------------------------------------